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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-12-09, Page 7PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS:, DEC. 9, 1937. . o oil o no o 0 0 , 0 0 0 0 4 "Under Sentence of Death" "I think you can bear the truth," the doctor said "There is no pos- sibility that your husband can recov- er. Probably he will die very 'sudden: iy-tomorrow, next week, next month, Tor even' next year. There is nothing you can do, beyond the care, you are •:ah•cady taking of him. But you must be prepared." So for the past month I have been readjusting my life, while at the same time keeping my husband's condition ,a'secret from him. 1 have never ap- proved of that in other cases. But now I see how impossible it is to say •outright to one'$ most beloved, "You -cannot get well, you are -going to die." Mentally, Iain prepared,'I can plan and anticipate; I' know just what I must do and shall do, when it does happen. But emotionally I aan aware 'that. I am not realizing it at all. I 'simply cannotimagine so I feel it, what existence will lie like without the man who has shared every bit of it for 20 years. What makes it harder. is that ours•has been one marriage in a thousand or'ten thousand -a co- --operative partnership. For years we have neverbeen separated for more than, a few hours: We have never had a secret from each other. When my 'husband dies I shall lose at once 'my lover, my churn, my co-worker. We 'have no children, we are no Longer young, and our lives and affections 'have been unusually centered on each other. It does not seem actually real to me that some day before long I shall have to start living -working. 'slaying, eating, sleeping -all alone., 'The Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 131.50 per year in advance, to Cana- dian addresses, $2.00 to the U.S. or ither foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the publish- er. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES - Tran- eient advertising 12c per count line ear first insertion. 8e for each sub-' Sequent insertion. Heading counts' .2 lines. Small advertisements not to 'exceed +one inch, such as "Wanted," "'Lost" "Strayed," etc., inserted once! dor 35c, each subsequent insertion 15e. Rates for display advertising 'made known on application. Communications intended for pub -1 ihcation must, as a guarantee of good 'faith, be accompanied by the name scf the writer. Without Hugh. Iiow.'will it be pos sibie to envy a bock or a movie or i radio program; H cannot comment ion it to him? How canaI spend an evening nidi friends Without a long after -session at home? How can I joy in my small triumphs in work or support my big disappointments; how can 1 make myself work, without Hugh? How can I eared about keep- ing myself properly dressed and de eently youthful-lookin •? I shall do these things, of course; I despise the widows I have known who slump into wrecks and snake their acnuaintonces' lives wretched. 1 shall' not weep on people's shoulders, or talk to them endlessly about my happy, hours with Hugh, or be a death's head at their feasts. All I shall want is to be' let alone to fight things out by myself. But iiow in God's name ani I going'to bear the intolerable loneliness? It would be easier far to lose both niy arms' or. to. have my eyes put out, than to have wrenched away from me some- one who has become, far'more`a part of use than I am of myself. And meanwhile, life goes on, ;Hugh thinks he is convalescent -at least 1 hope he thinks so. He cannot real- ize the whole truth, or I should not have to chase after him a dozen times a day to say "Put, down those pruning shears. Let me carry that. Sit down and rest." Yet I mustn't worry hien too much about things. for. excitement would be worse for him than lifting an elephant. There are a hunched things I, can do to make' him more comfortable; I can pamper him and wait on him, all the while keeping him from growing sus- picious of niy solicitude. It is a little consolation to ale to reflect that I can do these things, for one of the hardest thoughts to bear at such a time as this is the recollection of all the million little disagreements and unitindnesses and angers that mark even the happiest of marriages: But inside all this shell of every- day activity, my real self, bewildered and afraid and pitifully trying to be brave, sometimes tosses in a whirl- pool, sometimes floats in a vacuum At any minute now the shell nay break, As I write this manuscript, I may look up from my typewriter to where my husband is listening to the news broadcast, and find he does not answer when I speak to him. E. HALL - Proprietor. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer d3'inancial, Reals Estate and Fire In- eurance Agent. Representing 14 Fire ilnsnrance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton ,:&rank Fingland, S.A., LL.B. .i arrister, ' Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydoi1e, K.C. .:.Sloan Block - Olinfnn, Ont. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage eOffice: Huron 'Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours -Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION ,thy manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phene 207 GE Rat ELLIOTT tdicensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron 'Correspondence promptly answered 'Iinmediate arrangements can be made 'for Sales Date at The News -Record, 'Chlnton, or by calling phone 203. 'Charges Moderate and Satisfaction' Guaranteed. A. E. COOK PIANO AND VOICE :STUDIO -E. C. NICKLE, Phone 23w. 11-11-x. I HE McIULLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company. Head Office. Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - 'forth;; Vice -President, Thomas Moy- lan, Seaforth; Secretary -Treasurer, M A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors -Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - forth; James Sboldice, Walton; Wil- liam Knox, Londesboro• Chris. Leon- bardt, Dublin; James oonnolly, God- erich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. M. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex. Maw - Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- e on, R. R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; Jahn E. Pepper, Brucefield. R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKercher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; 4R. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. L Any money to be paid may paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth. or at Calvin 'Ciitt's Grocery, Galeria. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will. be promptly attended to do applies: ion toan o the ov officer ad- dressed ab e s d dressed to their respective pot offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. E' TABLE 'Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div -Going East, depart 7.03 a.m. Going East, depart 3.00 p.m. '•Going West, depart 11.45 p.m. Going West, depart 10.00 p.m. London, Karon & Bruce mooing North, ar. 1125 ]ve. 11.47 p.m. 'Going South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m. -and afterw rd • I was not so prepared as I thought I was. To be sure, I did not collapse when the end came, even though there had .been two days o1 mental and physical .agony for him and of mental • agony for ate. I attended quietly and efficiently to all the many painful details which there was no one but myself to handle; and through the numbness of the first dreadful day I did not shed a tear I have kept steadily at work ever since - t w o months today as I write filling ev- ery minute with one kind of labor or another except for a few hours of ex- hausted sleep. With such outward calm have I faced this ultimate calam- ity that yesterday when a business acquaintance began asking me qnes. tions 1 could not endure answering, and I begged him brusquely to change the subject, he said in. a.. surprised tone, "Olt, you've been so matter of. fact about it all h did not know you were taking it so seriously." Although I have not yet been able to. force myself to go ipueh to other people's houses, I receive all sorts of visitors here and talk to them calmly, even -about Hugh. I even had the exquisitely painful experience of go- ing to another town and bringing back niy husband's ashes on the train, I shall never forget that experience -the effort to keep from weeping a- loud before strangers, and yet the strange, shun comfort of''that ter- kibly light weight held against my breast where no tired head will ever lie again., When I got home I locked the door and collapsed. But an hour later I was at nay typewriter again. I had a daily job to attend to. But it is not i who dothese things. It is soanething, in my body. I,. the only I who mattered or cared for anything on earth, was consumed in a crematory. I have learned something about writing letters of condolence. For one thing, I have learned that they are only an added wound. The kind- est thing to do to your frieiids is to let them alone when they walk through this valley.•7 have been told over and over again how time will soften this blow, as if it were any re- lief to reflect that one must endure only one year, or five, or ten, or hell. I have been reminded of how beloved Hugh was, how useful, what an in- fluence for good, all of which I know better than anyone else, and which brings no consolation whatever. I have been assured that it was better for Ilugh to have died than to have lived an invalid. Whereas' I know, from his own lips, that he preferred life on 'anyterms to leaving me a- lone. I have bene told that he had lived long enough, that it was "a good age to die at." As I type these words, 1 look out of the window and see passing the house a neighbour who is old enough to be Hugh's fath- er. Ile has just been on a cross- country walk; he goes to his office six days a week. He has never in his life had a thought of which a ten -year-old could be proud. "But he is here, and Hugh, whose: learning was, so profound, whose naiad was so creative is gone forever, I ant engaged now in breaking up a Rome of 20 years' standing. I cannot afford to live here alone. Be- sides, it is too big and lonely; I could euduie no housenratc after Hugh. I am giving up all the things that made hone :for us -the green velvet fireplace chair in which Hugh always sat, the bed in. which he slept, the dishes he picked out himself; worse, the books and pictures and the piano on which he played, and all the naine- less-andvalueless things which gath- er 'arqund people .like barnacles on. a ship: There are a few, a` very few things with which I cermet part. All the rest I ani selling, or giving away. I knew a man once who after his wife died kept everything in the a partnent just as she had left it. Her powder and rouge were on the dres- sing' table, her clothes hung in the closet, her place was set every day with her individual knife; fork and. spoon I have done and doubtless' shall do many foolish things but I am not quite so sickly sentimental as that. I have had strength so far to face every difficult reality -it is nothing to be proud of; I am rather asham- ed to; be so hard, to save my sobs for the long dark hours alone, to smile and be polite and talk of trifles. With an unbroken voice - and so perhaps after all T shall bq able to start Life over again at nearly 50, to find my- self a corner into which to creep and go on with my work. Each day is harder than the one before, and so far time has been a torturer, not a physician. I may have 20 or 30 yearp. of this truncated existence. And for what? The world will geton very well without me; I am bringing it no new vital thing: My friend's tears would soon be dried at my death, as they have been dried at Hugh's. By what compulsion, I wonder, what weakness and old habits of the blood, trust I be condemned to this long tor- ment? It is not true that time heals all wounds; when niy grandfather died at 83 the last word he uttered was the name of the girl he had lov- ed and lost. before he ever saw my grandmother. 1 count my pitiful blessings with a miser's hand. I ani glad, since once of us had to go first, that it was Hugh, not I; he would have been ut- terly lost without me, to unable to meet the terrible necessities- of the situation. I am glad he is not suf- fering any more. I am glad that I can remember the many evidences I gave hint,,beyond any possible doubt of my devotion to hips. I am glad that"people loved hint, that some at least knew his worth, realized the. potentialities as well as the actualities of his lif e and work. But it is not enough. And -the selfish core of 1my deso- lation -few women have ever been loved as I was. Hugh's love, like mine, grew greater daily, and never lost the freshness and rapture of out votith. We were so close that often we oven dreamed the sante things at the swine time, or finished each oth- er's' sentences, or answered each oth- ers' unspoken queries. We were each other's center of existence. reason for living, ccnsolation for failure and disappointment, each other's pivots a- round which our own careers revolves ed. Paradise w as mine, and is lost. Wetaskiwin Times. DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Indian Scouts Help. Flood Victims During the autumn flooding of the M ahandi river, Sarangarh State, In- dia, valuable relief work was done by the Sarangarh Boy Scouts, under Commissioner Rajkumar •Naresh Chandra Siugh. ,The Rajkumar is a trained Scout leader. Scottish Scout Heads Greek Scout Parade A Scottish Boy Scout hi kilts at the head of the parade was the fea- ture of a Scout celebration at Petro, Greece. The parade included mounted Scouts, cyclists, hike trek carts, am- bulance Scouts, Sea Scouts and Wolf Cubs. British Scout First Aid Station At Dangerous Road Intersection A. first aid station for motoring Casualties has been established by British Rover Scouts at Bignell's Cor- ner on the Barbet By -Pass road, near Barnet. The station, which cost $300 to . equip, is manned every Saturday afternoon and evening and all day, Sunday. Over 30 Barnet Rover Scouts qualified to wear the St. John Ambulance , Association badge take turns on clity. The roads in the vic- inity have been the scene of numer- ous accidents. More Scout Antarctic Mementos For' Museum Aboard:"Discovery" The trustees of the British Museum have presented six volumes .of the scientific records '• of the National. Antarctic Expedition • of 1901-1904 to it R AS "Discovery," Captain Scott's famous ship, now a headquarters and training centre for British S e a Scouts. These valuable books have been added to the ship's museum of nautical and scientific instrument§ and other mementos of Arctic and „warts rfr// o!// fie historic Locomotive To Be Honoured. Once consigned to the junkyard, but saved and given a place of hon- our in Sir William. Whyte Park,' Winnipeg, "The Countess of Duffer in", first locomotive to reach western Canada, will be the basis of the CBC's historical` :drama "Within These Walls", to be broadcast over the na- tional network at., 9 pm. EST, De- cember 19. ' With the locomotive was undertaken the initial railway devel- opment in the West. Music For Music's Sake. 'Music for Music's Sae", a con- cert music programme that is heard every Tuesday at 11.00 p.m. EST, over the nmideast and western net- work of the CBC from Winnipeg, is now under the direction of a new con- ductor. ; He is John Me'Taggart, one of western Canada's most outstand- ing' musicians. Although making his debut with "Music for Music's Sake", Mr. Mc- Taggart is not a newcomer to the. CBC' networks. During the past few months he has been leader of "Zep- hyr Strings", a western network pro- duction which was heard over the ntideast network. Pupils Taught By Radio. "This English", presented every Tuesday night from the CBC studios at Toronto, compp:ised the only sub- ject for English studies for students in Grade XI at the high schools in this city for some weeks. With schools in the city closed due to the prevalence of infantile paraly- sis, students in all grades were get- ting home assignments through the press and in sone instances actual in- struction over the local radio station CHSJ. In the press notices two or three times each week, for Grade XI Eng- lish was the instruction: "Tune in to CHSJ on Tuesday at 9 pan. (AST), "The King's English". Campbell McInnes of University of Toronto's extension department con- ducts the programme. Short Takes. Eleanor Stewart, dramatic actress of the CBC's Montreal programme, "And. It Came to Pass", has hacl many years' experience not only in radio but in the theatre. She played 'Por- tia to George /bliss' Shylock, and was leading woman With Philip Mer- rievele in "Death Takes a Holiday." Marjorie Payne, Canada's onlywo- man orchestra leader, who directs the CBC's. Acadian Concert Orchestra in programmes originating in the Hali- fax studios, goes far afield for heti Music. Most of it comes from Eng- land where she obtains new selections and new arrangements that have be- come popular and that ordinarily are not heard on this side of the Atlan- tic until weeks later. Gerald Rowan CBC actor whon ar- ticipates in important Montreal pro- grammes, during his career probably has appeared in almost every impor- tant city in Canada and the United States. He has been associatedwith the legitimate theatre for over a quarter of a century, CORPORATION FEATURES DAY BY DAY (All 'Tines Eastern Standard) Thursday, December 9: 8.30 p.m. "Tudor String Quartet," with Anna Monci•ieff Hovey, pianist. From Winnipeg. 10.00 p.m."Canadian' Concert Hall of the Air". Orchestra direction J. J. Gagnier with Fleurette Beauchamp, Pianist. Frain Montreal. Friday, December 10: 8.45 pan.` "Hunting With a Cam- era". Talk by William Oliver, Cana- dian movie cameraman. CBC -MBS international exchange programme. From Calgary. 9.00 p.m. "Backstage". Variety pre-. sentation with Woodhouse and Haw- kins, orchestra direction Isaar Ma - mutt, volal ensemble and voloists. From Winnipeg. Antarctic explorers. "Discovery" now lies ii1 a permanent berth off Temple Steps, in the Thames. Scout Leader Heads British Athletes At Empire Games A party of over a hundred British athletes left England ng nd Decenvber 4th to compete in the Empire Gaines at Sydney, Australia, next February. The party is headed by Sir James Leigh -Wood, chairman of the Coun- clI for England of British Empire Games, Sir James also is Treasurer of the Boy Scouts Association. PICC -BAC FOR Al Y1ILD,COOL SMOKE Saturday; December 11: 7.45 pan. "Indian Affairs." Talk by the. Hon. T. A. Crerer. From Ot- tawa. 8.30 pan. "Reflections". The Ly- ric Trio, choir and orchestra direction 9.00. pan. "Within These Walls". Allan Melver. From Montreal. Sunday, December 12: 12.30,p.m. "Romance of Sacred Song". Dramatic interpretations o1 famous hymns and their origins, written by Estelle Fox. From Van - "Rideau Hall", a historical Canadian drama paoduced by Rupert Lucas, From Ottawa, 9.30 p.m. "Friendly Music". 'Or- chestra direction Geoffrey Wadding- ton with Frances James, soprano and William Morton, tenor. From, Toron- to. Monday, December 13: 6.30 p.m. "Fanfare?. Soloists and orchestra,- direction Bruce Holder, From Saint John. 9.00 p.m. "Melodic Strings". di- r'ection Alexander Chuhaldin. From Toronto. Tuesday, December 14: 3.45 p.nt, "Seeing Pictures". Task by Graham McInnes on famous paint- ings in Canadian galleries. From Toronto. 11.00 p.m. "Music for Music's Sake?. Orchestra with soloists di- rection Isaac Monett. From Winni- peg. Wednesday, December 15: 4.30 p.m. ."Along Gypsy Trails''. Orchestra and soloists direction Leon Zuckert. From Toronto. 10.30. p.m. Ozzie Williams and his orchestra. Dance music from the Chateau Laurier Hotel. From Otta- wa. "YOUR HOME STATION" i.KNX 1200 Kcs.-Wingham-249.9 Metres WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Friday, December 10th: _. 10.30 a.m.-Salvation Army Hour. 12 noon -Canadian Farm and Horne Hour. 6 p.m. -Cameron Geddes. .8 p.m. -Ross Cardiff's Accordeon Orchestra. 1 Saturday, December 11th: 12 noon -Canadian Farm and Home 1 Hour. 12.45 p.m.-CKNX Hill -billies. 8.30 -Ukelele Bill's Hillbillies. Sunday, December 12th: 11 a.m.-Wingham United Church. 12.30 p.m. -The Music Box. 1 p.m. -,-"History Comes to Life" 1.15 -Sunday Islalnders. No fumes worry you when you heat with HAMCO. You'll be ,;' delighted with this <; safer, cleaner, money- saving Coke. Lasts so long -easy to regulate. And so light on the shovel, it's a pleasure to handle. Leaves much less ash than other hard fuels. Try a ton of HAIVMC O, the dustless, smokeless, wasteless Coke. Order from your local HAMCO d e a l s's - he deserves your fuel business. COKE HAMILTON BY-PRODUCT COKE OVENS, LIMITED HAMILTON. CANADA HAMCO COKE sold in Clinton byi J. B. MUSTARD COAL CO, A. D. McCARTNEY VICTOR FALCONER W. J. MILLER & SON INSIST ON;HAMCta'-CANADA $ r'k,'iiv1 ST:-COK. 7 p,m.-St. Andrew's Church. 8.30.Wingham Community Sing. Monday, December 13th: 10.30 a.m.-Church of the Air. 11.30 -Hold The Press! 12.45 p.m. Pineridge Homestead- ers. 8 p.m. -Kenneth Rentoul. Tuesday, December 14th: 10.30 a.m.-Church of the Air. 11 a.m.-Mexican Strings. 5.45 p.m. -Boulevard of Make Be- lieve. 7.30 -"Clippings." 8.15 -Radio and Movie Gossip. 8.30 -United Farmers. Wednesday ,Dec. 15th: 10.30 a.m.-Church of the Air. 12.45 p.m.-Pineridge Homestead- ers. 6.00 -Cameron Geddes. Thursday, December 16th: 12 noon -Canadian Farm and Home Hour. 6 p.m. -Cameron Geddes. 8 'pan. -Gladys Pickell. NOT UNUSUAL A recent speaker before a woman's club was giving a description of his recent trip to Europe, and he told how hard many of the women work. ed. "It is no uncommon sight," he stated, "to see a woman and a don- key hitched up together." "That's not so unusual," interrupted a mem- ber of his audience. "You frequently see that over here, too." • LISTEN... OIL & ht CANADA -I937'4 IMPERIAL. TOBACCO'S INSPIRING PROGRAM PRIVATE GREETING CARDS Christmas Cards Printed with Your Own Message are More Popular This Year. COME IN AND SEE THE NICE SAMPLES TO CHOOSE FROM, The Cards are Boxed -25 in each box. 0. t.: b v They Range e in Price from ifrG $1.75 W(� TJp • The Clinton Ness -Record